Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog

Law360 has appointed insurance coverage counsel Jorge R. Aviles to serve on its 2025 Editorial Board for Insurance Authority Specialty Lines. As a member on the Editorial Board, Jorge will provide feedback on publication coverage and insight on how to best shape future coverage. Jorge’s appointment to the Editorial Board reflects Hunton attorneys’ reputations as leaders in the insurance coverage field and recognizes their valuable insights and contributions to thought leadership. Law360 also appointed Hunton partner Gregory G. Hesse to serve on the Editorial Board for Bankruptcy.

Washington, DC-based partner Michael Levine has been recognized for his extensive experience and insights into emerging and legacy property and business interruption insurance coverage issues by being selected to Law360’s 2024 Editorial Advisory Board for Insurance Authority Property. As a member of the board, Mike will provide feedback on Law360’s coverage of property issues and expert insight on how best to shape future reporting of issues affecting businesses across all industry sectors.

New York’s Commercial Division is a sophisticated forum for resolving complex commercial disputes.  The Commercial Division has many advantages over other forums: judges are hand-selected for their experience with commercial cases, discovery procedures are streamlined to save time and money, and dispute resolution is encouraged early and often.  However, the several sets of overlapping rules governing practice in the Commercial Division can intimidate outsiders and trip up the uninformed. 

The explosive growth of representations and warranties (R&W) insurance over the last decade is no secret.  But, for many, R&W insurance remains an enigma, particularly as respects filing a claim under such policies.  Indeed, even those involved in buying R&W insurance may not have experience on the claims end and, as a result, possess little knowledge on how to navigate the assortment of issues that may arise.  Of course, policyholders pursuing a claim under an R&W policy should be aware of the minefield of issues that await in establishing the two primary thresholds to recovery: breach ...